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Introduction
Milton Borsato holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Parana (1989) in Brazil, Master's degree in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from Muroran Kogyo Daigaku (1993) in Japan, PhD in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2003) in Brazil, PhD in Advanced Productions Systems Engineering from Muroran Kogyo Daigaku (2016) in Japan and post-doctorate in Production Engineering with emphasis in Integrated Systems for Manufacturing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2010, 2013) in the USA, as a Fulbright and CAPES scholar.
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March 1994 - present
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Retired batteries pose a significant current and future challenge for electric mobility due to their high cost and the need for a state of health (SOH) above 80% to supply energy efficiently. Recycling and alternative applications are the primary options for these batteries, with recycling still undergoing research as regards more efficient and cos...
Robot-based additive manufacturing (RBAM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology powered by robotic manipulators. The material is deposited from a nozzle onto an initial surface, adding successive layers on top of each other and pouring it along multiple directions (multiaxial deposition) thanks to the dexterity of robots, often of the anthro...
Many companies have been expending considerable efforts to continuously improve manufacturing processes to ensure their competitiveness and remain in the market. Value Stream Mapping is a strategic tool that makes it possible to visualize the macro of production to assist in planning and decision-making. It is a process mapping that considers the w...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are emerging as a feasible solution to combat emissions, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and gradually replace internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The primary purpose of the traction battery in EVs is to provide energy to power the electric motor. However, the design of these batteries is complex, which presents one...
Sudden and unexpected economic changes associated with market competition and short product life cycles have generated significant organizational challenges. Thus improvements in processes and product characteristics can directly interfere with their production capacity. To identify improvements in the process, it is fundamental to analyze how the...
Governments and the market have stimulated replacing fossil fuel vehicles with electric mobility. As a direct effect, the demand for Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) has risen significantly. This technology has several advantages compared with other storage systems, especially the high energy density, capacity, long lifetime, and cycles. On the other ha...
Machine Learning (ML) models suffer from bias and over-fitting and have dire results for some applications. In order to soften this issue, approaches like Ensemble Learning (EL) are used to give higher accuracy and robustness for several classification and regression problems. One of them can be the failure detection in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs)...
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing is based on a welding torch usually attached to a robotic arm with multiple degrees of freedom. Robot-based additive manufacturing allows non-planar and non-uniform thickness layers to be deposited where the slices have non-constant thickness. Thus, in addition to the motion settings, fine regulations of the welding...
Many companies are spending considerable effort on continuous improvement of manufacturing processes to ensure their competitiveness and stay in the market. Despite the methods often used in production planning and control, many companies do not have practical and reliable data control. As many still perform data collection manually, it takes a lon...
The increased use of technologies optimizes productivity profitability, minimizes risks, and reduces costs across the farms. Agriculture 4.0 enables detailed digital information to guide decisions along the agricultural value chain. To be considered an intelligent farm, all the farm processes have to be connected, providing data in real-time. Cloud...
Planar slicing algorithms with constant layer thickness are widely implemented for geometry processing in Additive Manufacturing (AM). Since the build direction is fixed, a staircase effect is produced, decreasing the final surface finish. Also, support structures are required for overhanging portions. To overcome such limits, AM is combined with m...
DC–DC converters are used in many power electronics applications, such as switching power supply design, photovoltaic, power management systems, and electric and hybrid vehicles. Traditionally, DC–DC converters are linearly modeled using a typical operating point for their control design. Some recent works use nonlinear models for DC–DC converters,...
Robot-Based Additive Manufacturing (RBAM) combines material deposition nozzles and robotic manipulators to increase the flexibility of cartesian/delta Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems. RBAM overcomes the traditional limit given by the planarity of the manufacturing layer and allows variable slice thickness to be realized. Also, RBAM enables the...
Reality shows that, despite promises to facilitate the analysis of manufacturing systems, the use of state-of-the-art tools and techniques may become a challenging effort. Reliable data can drive significant analyses to help companies understand underlying issues and plan actions to improve processes. Digital Twins (DT) are models that could monito...
The adoption of Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) is increasing in many different sectors such as electric mobility, electronics products, and smart grids. This trend happens because LIBs are more stable, have a longer life cycle, and store more energy than other technologies. However, a couple of failures in the LIB can cause safety issues and degradati...
Lithium-Ion batteries (LIB) store energy for many different applications, especially in the mobility and smart grid areas. LIB has several advantages like stability, longer lifetime, and capacity compared with other technologies. Although, LIB can be dangerous, mainly if it operates in unsafe conditions due to failures that can appear and cause acc...
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the state-of-the-art technology for energy storage systems. LIBs can store energy for longer, with higher density and power capacity than other technologies. Despite that, they are sensitive to abuses and failures. If the battery management system (BMS) operates incorrectly or some anomalies appear, performance and...
Industry 4.0 is driving the revolution of manufacturing processes by combining innovative technologies and new interaction paradigms among systems and operators. In particular, the layout, tasks and work sequences of assembly lines are designed according to several transdisciplinary Design Principles (DPs), such as process efficiency, product quali...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming a viable alternative to eliminate emissions, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and gradually replace vehicles with an internal combustion engine (ICE). The traction battery of these vehicles has the primary function of supplying the energy necessary for the electric motor to work. Its design is complex and repr...
Purpose
This paper aims to develop a method based on artificial intelligence capable of predicting the due date (DD) of job shops in real-time, aiming to assist in the decision-making process of industries.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper chooses to use the methodological approach Design Science Research (DSR). The DSR aims to build solutio...
Agriculture is facing increasing challenges due to several factors such as population growth, climate change, and variation of prices practiced by the market. It has been looking for ways to improve profitability and agricultural efficiency through better management control based on information and knowledge generated on the farm in its specific co...
The intention to improve the performance of the processes involved is considered one of the main guidelines for companies’ competitive advantage. Technological advances help to improve yields, operations, decision making and cost reduction when adopted in their daily processes, and assembly lines are constantly monitored, but the detection of adver...
Municipal Solid Waste Management is yet to be eco-effectively performed, especially in developing coun-tries. In Brazil, a considerable fraction of waste has been improperly landfilled, generating environmental,social and economic problems. In 2018, the government of the state of Paraná released a revised versionof its waste management plan, defini...
Agriculture is facing increasing challenges due to several factors such as population growth and climate change. Smart Farming is enabling the use of detailed digital information to guide decisions along the agricultural value chain. New technologies and solutions have been applied to provide alternatives to assist in information gathering and proc...
Purpose
Although organizations have more data than ever at their disposal, actually deriving meaningful insights and actions from them is easier said than done. In this concern, the main objective of this study is to identify trends and research opportunities regarding data management within new product development (NPD) and collaborative engineeri...
This research aims to develop a solution in the form of a set of guidelines, which allow designers to ensure the quality of the information in the PDP (Product Development Process), provided through PMI (Product Manufacturing Information) annotations. The methodological framework called DSR (Design Science Research) was adopted in the development o...
In the New Product Development (NPD) process, in addition to the customer’s requirements, it is necessary to consider the other actors that will intervene throughout the product’s life cycle, including the performance of maintenance services. Designing a product with characteristics that facilitate the intervention of services requires that the des...
Increasing manufacturing efficiency has been a constant challenge since the First Industrial Revolution. What started as mechanization and turned into electricity-driven operations has experienced the power of digitalization. Currently, the manufacturing industry is experiencing an exponential increase in data availability, but it is essential to d...
Blockchain technology provides secure, reliable and transparent solutions to different challenges arising from the growing need for connectivity presented nowadays. Recent developments in industrial processes sets fertile ground for the application of this technology. Aiming to understand the state of the art of blockchain technology application in...
The current scenario of the national and international market is marked by increasingly fierce competition and to ensure the survival of organizations, requires companies to develop new products cannot fail regarding cost, quality and time during a project. For this, the decisions that are made during the engineering changes of a product need to be...
Increasingly, manufacturing companies are focusing their efforts on exploring new markets. This new reality makes them strive for more efficient ways to offer their products at a lower cost and without losing their customization. As a result, the compromise between volume and customization (i.e. mass customization) is necessary and to support these...
Agriculture has always had a great significance in the civilization development. However, modern agriculture is facing increasing challenges due to population growth and environmental degradation. Commercially, farmers are looking for ways to improve profitability and agricultural efficiency to reduce costs. Smart Farming is enabling the use of det...
Having good production planning is essential to companies who need to maximize the use of their resources and boost their profits. However, to formulate efficient production planning is necessary to consider many variables. That makes analytical solutions almost impossible, forcing companies to use computational methods to solve this kind of proble...
In developing countries, organic waste is commonly dumped in untreated landfills. Brazil has around 3,000 landfills distributed in 1,600 cities. The Brazilian government instituted the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS), which set the goal of ending the dumping grounds in 2014. However, it was not accomplished. Municipal governments do not have the...
O Governo brasileiro lançou, em 2010, a Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (PNRS), com o objetivo de estabelecer diretrizes e normatizar boas práticas de gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos urbanos. Dentre as metas traçadas, estava a de acabar com os depósitos a céu aberto (lixões) em todos os municípios brasileiros. Contudo mais de um terço aind...
Industry 4.0 leverages Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS) that use IoT (Internet of Things) communication and ubiquitous computing to optimize and integrate synergistically manufacturing processes and industrial business. This increased computational and communication capability allows to dynamically interact with the physical environment pro...
Advances in technology over last decades have been followed by many challenges of industrial competitiveness at different levels. Production planning and control generally demand too much time to data capture, and it makes it difficult to understand the analysis of the process flow and to obtain satisfactory results. These results can help operatio...
Cost estimation in the early stages of the product development process is fraught with uncertainties. The conceptual design is characterized by the absence of data, the most critical being costs. Decisions based on incorrect assumptions impact a project significantly and can increase unexpected costs in the future. As there are no structured means...
Industrial symbiosis, a concept derived from industrial ecology, emphasizes the collaborative and synergic production among industries. The particular focus is on cyclical flows of resources (material, energy, water, and/or by-products), in order to minimize impacts on the environment. In this way, an industry could reuse the discarded resources of...
Increasing market competitiveness forced industries to seek ways to reduce production costs and increase profitability. Companies operating in different markets face different customer expectations. Thus, it is necessary to develop products that meet the most varied market requirements, without demanding the high investment costs that product custo...
Current industry practices during the Product Development Process (PDP) still points to the isolation of knowledge domains even with the increase of digitalization. Considering manufacturing process constrains from the beginning of the PDP avoids problems in later stages during the whole product life cycle. Through the application of concepts of th...
Always looking for innovation and prominence in the labor market, companies from different areas are always aiming to improve issues of development and monitoring of production. Virtualization of existing resources is being widely discussed and solicited by companies as a whole, involving both design and manufacturing sectors. The choice to emphasi...
Always looking for innovation and prominence in the labor market, companies from different areas are always aiming to improve issues of development and monitoring of production. Virtualization of existing resources is being widely discussed and solicited by companies as a whole, involving both design and manufacturing sectors. The choice to emphasi...
The early stages of product development are characterized by uncertainties. Designers must deal with challenges that arise unexpectedly in an agile and responsive manner. Expert information systems based on ontological models are a promising approach to capture knowledge and rationale of domain specialists, either for decision making or knowledge r...
Sustainable supply chain design can be performed using optimisation strategies for minimising environmental impacts while maximising profit. It is not clear how such strategies influence the resilience of a supply chain - its ability to handle disturbances without compromising its function. This research used the ecosystem network analysis (ENA) to...
Sustainable supply chain design can be performed using optimisation strategies for minimising environmental impacts while maximising profit. It is not clear how such strategies influence the resilience of a supply chain - its ability to handle disturbances without compromising its function. This research used the ecosystem network analysis (ENA) to...
Sustainable supply chain design can be performed using optimisation strategies for minimising environmental impacts while maximising profit. It is not clear how such strategies influence the resilience of a supply chain-its ability to cope with disruptions without compromising its function. This research used the ecosystem network analysis (ENA), a...
The New Product Development Process (NDP) is noticed as a critical factor to maintain the competitiveness in organizations. New products allow us to focus on taking a competitive position. Also, the first and most important reason for any new product development is to provide new value to the customer. In this sense, the Requirements Engineering (R...
Anthropocentrism and disciplinary research have not led to effective solutions to sustainability problems. A shift is required towards biocentric, transdisciplinarity-based solutions, to mitigate rebound effects and unintended, negative effects. In the field of Sustainable Supply Network Design (SSND), such shift implies on developing resilient sol...
The highly competitive business environment has been increasing with the advent of Industry 4.0, since the fast-changing market requirements need rapid decision-making to improve productivity. Hence, the smart factory has been highlighted as a digitized and connected production facility, which can use and combine data analytics and artificial intel...
We are organizing a special session in the 48th Computers & Industrial Engineering (CIE) conference (CIE 48 https://cie48.com/program/special-sessions/) to be held in Auckland, New Zealand on 2-5 Dec. 2018.
On behalf of all the organizers, we would like to invite you to contribute to this special session and bring up more in-depth discussion/resear...
The current trends of waste present a global challenge pursuing sustainability. In response, recycling is broadly recognised as a solid strategy and the proper approach to attenuate the impact on the environment and human society. However, despite the current strides in recycling the remaining amounts of disposed products keep on increasing. Revers...
Trends in Prognostics Health Management (PHM) have been introduced into mechanical items of manufacturing systems to predict Remaining Useful Life (RUL). PHM as an estimate of the RUL allows Condition-based Maintenance (CBM) before a functional failure occurs, avoiding corrective maintenance that generates unnecessary costs on production lines. An...
The early stages of product development are characterized by uncertainties and assumption of parameters that directly affect the product and project costs, the development time, and the quality of the manufacturing process. Designers must deal with challenges that arise unexpectedly in an agile and responsive manner. Expert information systems base...
Global instability can be seen as a reflection of the increasing demand for natural resources and the reduction of personnel expenditures. Yet, this is often associated with industrial systems, whose main objectives are to increase productive capacity and reduce costs. This scenario identifies the need for changes in strategy establishment in the o...
As supply chains evolve towards optimal performance in economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability, resilience is required to address disturbances while maintaining their functionality. This research contributes to this topic, using enaR-an Ecosystems Network Analysis package for R software-to quantitatively evaluate the resilience of a...
It is fundamental to adopt a Design for Reliability (DfR) approach at the stage of new product development in order to guarantee the reliability of an item at all stages of its life cycle. The amount of publications about DfR is not very extensive and it is somewhat dispersed. Thus, the main objective of this article is to collect and perform an an...
Systematic reuse of parts is not often achievable in a sustainable way. The methods associated with the available disassembly technology rarely addresses non-destructive disassembly approach that favor reuse as an end-of-life (EoL) strategy. In this sense, this paper aims to propose a method able to identify best opportunities and thus, focus on th...
Recent advances in smart manufacturing open up opportunities in industrial support, specifically in maintenance and physical asset management. This trend allows data collected from machines in operation to interact with cyberspace computers through a communication network, thus forming the concept of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Besides, rapid adv...
Environmental Sustainability is one of the ‘Grand Challenges’ for manufacturing success in the 21st century. The present article mainly focuses on energy use during the manufacturing steps used for assembling products. In particular, industry still needs systematic and reliable ways to capture information for ultimately accounting for energy effici...
The rapid increase of waste presents a global challenge pursuing sustainability. In response, recycling is widely recognized as a friendly strategy for the environment and the proper approach to minimize the impact on the environment and the economy. However, the available recycling technology requires raw materials and energy, thus contributing to...